Painting consumes labour not disproportionate to its effect; but a fellow will hack half a year at a block of marble to make somet...hing in stone that hardly resembles a man. The value of statuary is owing to its difficulty. You would not value the finest head cut upon a carrot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The multitude will hardly believe the excessive force of education, and in the difference of modesty between men and women, ascrib...e that to nature, which is altogether owing to early instruction: Miss is scarce three years old, but she's spoke to every day to hide her leg, and rebuked in good earnest if she shews it; whilst little Master at the same age is bid to take up his coats, and piss like a man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I wonder whether mankind could not get along without all these names, which keep increasing every day, and hour, and moment; till ...at the last the very air will be full of them; and even in a great plain, men will be breathing each other's breath, owing to the vast multitude of words they use, that consume all the air, just as lamp-burners do gas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

After which you led me to waterAnd bade me drink, which I did, owing to your kindness....You would not let me out for two days and three nights,Bringing me books bound in wild thyme and scented wild grassesAs if reading had any interest for me ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of... the Law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

You've spent too much time with the stars. You don't know anything about living, the law of the jungle, the human jungle. I do, I'...ve spent my life at it. You don't know what your civilized people will do to cling to life. I do, because I know I'd cling if I had to kill to do it. And so will you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

It is important to realize that determinism does not imply events occur in spite of our actions. Some events occur because we dete...rmine them. Determinism must not be confused with the doctrine of fatalism, which asserts that future events are entirely beyond our control. "It is all written in the stars," declares the fatalist. "What will be will be." The soldier who behaves recklessly on the battlefield in the face of a hail of bullets while thinking "if my number is on it, no precaution will avert death" is a fatalist. Some Oriental religions contain fatalist overtones, and many people are inclined to lapse into fatalism from time to time, especially as far as major world affairs are concerned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »